David sits down with David Guas, author of DamGoodSweet—a love letter to the Big Easy. Guas talks about New Orleans’ rich traditions, its unique culinary language, and the role the women in Guas’s life played in shaping his love of food.

Novelist, essayist, and food writer James Sturz reads his sensual and occasionally erotic piece about the pleasures of flesh—both animal and human—and the sometimes disquieting similarity between them.